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From: FRAZIER%AFGLSC.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU (S. W. FRAZIER)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Cron
Message-ID: <11098@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 4 Jan 88 22:36:56 GMT
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	I have an AT&T 3B1 running SYSV rel 3.5.  I've recently
noticed that cron is not being spawned when the system starts up.
I am the only user on the machine and I know for a fact that it was being
spawn earlier in 1987.  (Cronlog in /usr/adm exists..)  The only thing
I remember doing was deleting the old /usr/adm/cronlog and copying
/dev/null to /usr/adm/cronlog to start a new file.  
	In any event Cron is not being spawned and I'd like
to know how I can get it to start in the system boot procedures.
I figure it's probably in either /etc/inittab or in /etc/rc but
I'd like to avoid messing with it.
	Do I actually HAVE to have cron running?  What are the consequences
if I just ignore this little problem.  Anyone out there proffer any
advice??